On September 24, German voters delivered an ambivalent victory to Angela Merkel, returning her to power as Chancellor of Germany but with a much smaller margin for her Christian Democratic Union (CDU). Along with its Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union...

On May 7, 2017, centrist Emmanuel Macron was elected as the next president of France and sworn in on May 14 as the youngest French president since Napoléon Bonaparte. Macron beat far-right Marine Le Pen

On March 20, the five presidential candidates who nationally polled above 10% gathered for their first presidential debate, marking the official start of the French presidential campaign. The three-hour long, substantive debate on the future direction of France was...